Meat-tenderer, also vegetable-cutter.



No. 776,945.- PATENTED DEG.6,1904. E. G. RIEDEL.

MEAT TENDBREE, ALSO VEGETABLE CUTTER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 3. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

W F??? El 1 W 1| I I ii i UNITED STATES Patented December 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MEAT-TENDEREFI, ALSO VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,945, dated December6, 1904.

Application filed July 8, 1903- Serial No. 164,731. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST GUIDO RIEDEL, watchmaker, a subject of theKing of Saxony, residing at Einsiedel, near Uhemnitz, in the Kingdom ofSaxony, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement inMeat-Tenderers, also Vegetable-Cutters, of which the following is a fulland clear specilication.

As is well known, special tools for pricking or cutting meat in slicesand the like are now coming into use, in which a series of steelstarwheels are mounted to turn.on an axle provided with a handle. Thesestar-wheels prick with their sharp points the meat and render a beatingof the same unnecessary. During moving the tool over the meat, however,it is unavoidable that the latterwill adhere to the points of thestar-wheel and get entangled thereon.

The tool is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a side View of the tool ready for use. Fig. 2 is a front view of thesame, and

Fig. 3 is a side view of the same to show how the defiecting-screen canbe turned ofi.

In order to avoid this entanglement, according to my invention the toolis provided with a deflecting-screen a, which has slots 6, into whichthe star-wheels c engage and within which they can revolve. Thisdeflectingscreen reaches beyond the axis of the starwheels, and thus itcompletely incloses the star- Wheels, so that it will keep off the meat.The axle of the star-wheels o is formed by a tube at, into the ends ofwhich take the ends of the correspondingly-bent handle 0. The middleportion of the handle, which extends parallel to the tube (2, forms theaxle for the screen, so that this latter may be swung back in the mannershown in Fig. 3.

Having now described my invention, what I wish to secure by LettersPatent of the United States is- A meat-tenderer, comprising a handle, anaxle revolubly secured thereto, and carrying rotary cutters, adeflecting-screen hinged to the handle to swing to and from the axle andprovided with slots for the cutters to pass through, and means to securesaid screen in its position near the axle.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

ERNST GUIDO RIEDEL.

Witnesses:

E. (J. MEYER, O. RAonLITz.

